[lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

[Alan Rudy]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> The first public education in the US was for the ex-slaves in the late
> 1800's. When public education was won for them it was extended and won
> for the whole working class...
>

Um, CB, you live in MI, the home of one of the two foundational land grant
universities - chartered as such in the 1860s... and very definitely not for
ex-slaves.

Do I take it that you are talking about public primary and secondary
education?  If so, I have vague recollections of early public ed at that
level in New England before the late 19th C (but I could surely be wrong).